Department of Theatre & Dance

The Department of Theatre & Dance provides a unique liberal arts experience where students thrive by engaging across difference and critically investigating the world through creative processes.

As artist-scholars from very different disciplines, we engage with students in solving complex problems through high-impact learning experiences that develop critical thinking, an appreciation for complexity and context, and the ability to communicate clearly in a variety of languages (verbal, visual, aural, spatial, behavioral, kinesthetic). While many of our students go on to pursue a life in the performing arts, our fundamental mission is for all our students to develop as well-rounded individuals with a broad spectrum of knowledge and skills to think and act creatively in an ever-changing and increasingly challenging local and global reality.

Majors and Minors Courses

Feature Stories

October 7, 2024

Student Chronicles

Year two at Richmond

A group of students from the Class of 2027 look back at their first year and reflect on their first few weeks as sophomores.

Amber Musser lectures at the Humanities Center

October 2, 2024

University of Richmond Launches New Humanities Center

The University of Richmond recently launched the Humanities Center, a campus-wide initiative that will foster student and faculty research in the many areas of scholarship that make up the humanities.